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Workers in London, England recently drained Honor Oak, one of Europe's largest underground reservoirs, for repairs, exposing the 94-year-old Edwardian structure's brickwork, archways and buttresses, as of October 1, 2003. Honor Oak opened in 1909 after three years of construction. The multi-section reservoir normally holds more water than 70 Olympic-size swimming pools.

Reports on the possibility of existence of underground reservoirs in Egypt's Western Desert, revealed by satellite images and photographs taken by U.S. shuttle astronauts. Efforts made by agronomists to test the prospects of crop cultivation in the region; Feasibility of growing wheat in the area.